Show alfrom from fridays daily feb IT 17 DAYS DRAMA IT is a subject for congratulation that the popular indignation felt against the land jumpers whose highhanded high handed acts have agitated the community for several days past is not confined to any class or section with the exception of afew a few pothouse pot house frequenters and a very limited lot of other growlers prowlers grow lers who are always agin the local government the sentiment is so far as we have been able to learn universal while the mormon part of the rou population lation felt as deeply and aad keenly concerning the thieving outram outrages es as did respectable dpn I cormons mormons Mor mons I 1 the latter have been as a rule much more forcible in their lempres expressions concerning the perpetrators this unanimity to sustain the local government when it is clearly in the tight Is a healthy indication and must have a sat sa restraining influence influent upon dish dishonest onesi adventurers who ar are inclined to commit robberies of the kind in question here and there has been exhibited to a very verv limited degree however a sort of reluctant expression against the jumpers manifested by sickly but attempts to throw a shadow over the action of the city government tor for the vigorous way in which it defended bended fended the rights of the corporation and consequently the rights of the citizens it may be safely stated that every upholder of good government will in this matter uphold the hands bands of the municipal authorities it is universally admitted that the have not the ghost of a claim to the land in question its title is in the corporation and therefore iu in the peo people le of them the municipality as a body harthe had the custodians of that property stood supinely aloof and awaited the pro probable bable slow course of events made more tardy by inae inaction tion they would have been derelict to an extent that would have h ave brought upon their beads the just condemnation of the community in a matter so flagrant when premises are seized by forcible detainer by persons persona who have no ual right to the land in question a tact that is universally admit ted who are entitled to the nine points of the law proverbially said to be on the side of the parties in n possession to what points of advantage are such reprehensible characters entitled in any regard none hone whatever I 1 what a spectacle of imbecility the city government would have presented dha it stood sabod on one side and allowed the people to be the plaintiffs in a legal suit against a clique of marauders permitted to hold bold possession to in the capacity of defendants to admit the propriety of such a procedure in a ease of the character in question and in d to allow it to be carried to its logical issue would be cestr destructive active of good government and the right to property if it could be done in one instance ii it could in others all that dishonest men would require to enable them to cause no end of trouble expense and vexation to bona me fide owners ot of property would be to watch an opportunity when the latter were personally off the ground take advantage of that bare fact by assuming possession posse asien and thus thas become defendants at law while the hapless proprietors would be com coin 1 belled to sue for forcha what on the very lace of the facts belonged to them the position was properly reversed yesterday by the act of the city government ern ernt ment hent if the jumpers imagine they have any rights in the premises the courts are open to them let them pursue it is de decidedly cidely dely proper that they should work on the outside of and not in possession of property to which they have not q a spark of title if they have a disposition to 0 o spend their money in the hope that the courts propose to award other peoples people s property props to them no one will find any any baur fault A tool fool and his bis money is soon parted but that they shall without resistance be permitted to seize by forcible detainer that which does not be belong longto te themes an utopian Utopia nidea idea the illusory char character acte x of 09 which will be di dispelled spelle by stern ard and ta p them unpleasant facts sickly attempts have cepa made from the q quarter U arter from which ack aspersions per usually come to te attribute to the officers who elected ejected the I 1 jumpers from froin the arsenal hill property coarse brutal and its profane language the writer c ot this was a personal witness of what took plage aad jae be heard beard no unbecoming language lan gaage from the lips of the mayor marshal or por nor any of their theft aids the first named ocial directed the the proceedings as the chief executive officer of this city and had he be seen or heard anything of of the kind referred to he would have put a stop to it interlopers Interlope rs upon the corporation grounds were at each point ordered off the premises the command was unequivocal those who were discreet obeyed without hesitation and simply departed those who refused were assisted to go and that was all there was of it the officers had haa ample facilities for meeting I 1 any emergency that might have abeen in incase case of violent resistance but as none of that character was offer d the whole affair was peaceable although by no means tame IV was a necessary measure tor for the protection ol of toe public cudlic against a class held everywhere in almost universal detestation tea tion and white while executed with commeau commendable ble promptness and activity was enair entirety free from any element of brutality so far as the officers were concerned we understand that the jumpers made an attempt yesterday to ind induce uce marshal dyer to exercise hla his official authority to reinstate them upon the land from which they hau bad been evicted surely they must give that officer but small credit tor for good sense to make such an application fort fortio un g tely he possesses much more judgment than they attribute to him and a he very properly declined to interfere every person who favors good government and the general prosperity will hope that land jump ing has by the events of the last few days received a knock on the head bead that will relegate it to the category cafego kanty of the lost arts so far as salt lake city is concerned |